The paintbrush/pen/pencil/crayon is mightier than the sword. Or hey,
even needlepoint if you're up for it. The possibilities are endless.
"Seattle cartoonist launches 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day'," by Jamie
Griswold for the Associated Press, April 23 (thanks to all who sent
this in):

After Comedy Central cut a portion of a South Park episode
following a death threat from a radical Muslim group, Seattle cartoonist
Molly Norris wanted to counter the fear. She has declared May 20th
"Everybody Draw Mohammed Day."

Norris told KIRO Radio's Dave Ross
that cartoonists are meant to challenge the lines of political
correctness. "That's a cartoonist's job, to be non-PC."

Producers of South Park said Thursday that Comedy Central
removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a
radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the
Prophet Muhammad.

The group said it wasn't threatening South Park producers
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but it included a gruesome picture of Theo
Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004, and
said the producers could meet the same fate. The website posted the
addresses of Comedy Central's New York office and the California
production studio where South Park is made.

"As a cartoonist I just felt so much passion about what had
happened I wanted to kind of counter Comedy Central's message they sent
about feeling afraid," Norris said.

Norris has asked other artists to submit drawings of any
religious figure to be posted as part of Citizens Against Citizens
Against Humor (CACAH) on May 20th.

But drawings of one "religious figure" in particular will provoke
death threats and accusations of hatred and racism.

On her website Norris explains this is not meant to
disrespect any religion, but rather meant to protect people's right to
express themselves.

The paintbrush/pen/pencil/crayon is mightier than the sword. Or hey,
even needlepoint if you're up for it. The possibilities are endless.
"Seattle cartoonist launches 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day'," by Jamie
Griswold for the Associated Press, April 23 (thanks to all who sent
this in):

After Comedy Central cut a portion of a South Park episode
following a death threat from a radical Muslim group, Seattle cartoonist
Molly Norris wanted to counter the fear. She has declared May 20th
"Everybody Draw Mohammed Day."

Norris told KIRO Radio's Dave Ross
that cartoonists are meant to challenge the lines of political
correctness. "That's a cartoonist's job, to be non-PC."

Producers of South Park said Thursday that Comedy Central
removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a
radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the
Prophet Muhammad.

The group said it wasn't threatening South Park producers
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, but it included a gruesome picture of Theo
Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004, and
said the producers could meet the same fate. The website posted the
addresses of Comedy Central's New York office and the California
production studio where South Park is made.

"As a cartoonist I just felt so much passion about what had
happened I wanted to kind of counter Comedy Central's message they sent
about feeling afraid," Norris said.

Norris has asked other artists to submit drawings of any
religious figure to be posted as part of Citizens Against Citizens
Against Humor (CACAH) on May 20th.

But drawings of one "religious figure" in particular will provoke
death threats and accusations of hatred and racism.

On her website Norris explains this is not meant to
disrespect any religion, but rather meant to protect people's right to
express themselves.